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Suzanne’s initial diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia left her with 3-5 years to live. Now, 12 years later, she credits her grandchildren and the strong support system at Roswell Park for giving her hope and the strength she needs to keep fighting.

New York Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy was in Buffalo January 30 to announce the formation of Roswell Park's Center for Personalized Medicine, an effort that was launched with $5.1 million in state funding and quickly grew into a $23.6 million genomic-medicine facility boosted by public/private collaboration.

Roswell Park recently launched its Center for Personalized Medicine, a facility that will use genetic sequencing and detailed bioinformatic analysis to improve care for cancer patients, advance research and develop new therapies and diagnostic tools.

Although biological, genetic, and physiological factors play significant roles in who develops cancer, how it is treated, and who survives it, social, political, economic, and psychological variables also substantially contribute to cancer racial/ethnic disparities in treatment outcomes.